Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -1 debian-goodies: debget can't download packages which would
uninstall essential packages(e.g. systemd-sysv)
Control: retitle -2 Replace debget with the more reliable and faster dget from
devscripts
Control: severity -2 wishlist
Control: submitter -2 !
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After doing an "apt-get update":
>
> ypig:~> debget systemd-sysv
> ERROR: There is no 'systemd-sysv' package. Sorry.
> If you believe the package exists then consider updating your.
> package database using 'apt-get update'
>
> while the systemd-sysv exists:
This is because this command ()without the quiting for better
diagnosis) doesn't succeed:
apt-get --print-uris --reinstall --force-yes install "systemd-sysv"
Actually, I'd consider dropping debget (or at least its
implementation) completely in favour of dget which does the same, but
* faster (pro),
* more reliable (pro),
* more featureful (also works with source packages),
* is written in Perl instead of /bin/sh (con), and
* is part of devscripts (con).
Actually I likely would have done that now if dget wouldn't be in
devscripts. But devscripts is a rather package-development centric
package while debian-goodies is a more admin-centric package. So I'm
not sure what's the best way to handle tools for both groups.
At least I'm cloning this bug-report accordingly.
Regards, Axel
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